Wide-angle propagating beam analysis for circularly symmetric waveguides: Comparison between FD-BPM and FD-TDM

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 236-238

  Yamauchi, Junji ^a,b   Akimoto, Yasuhiro ^a   Nibe, Masayuki ^a   Nakano, Hisamatsu ^a,b  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; CIRCULARLY SYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PADE APPROXIMATION OPERATOR; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATION; SCALAR HELMHOLTZ EQUATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0030086692     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.484252     Document Type: Review

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